SH1632

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Plate Tectonics
Directions: Read the instructions and all the items in each test type carefully. Use black or blue pen
ink only. Avoid any form of erasure, alteration, and superimposition on the final answer.

I. Identification (10 items x 1 point)

Write the items being described in the following statements on the blank before the number.
_______________1. It is a bend in rock.
_______________2. It is a term which means too important, valuable, and respected to be changed,
criticized, or be interfered with.
_______________3. It is a fracture along which rock on one (1) side moved relative to rock on the
other side.
_______________4. It is a fold arching upward.
_______________5. It is the name of the supercontinent which all the continents were once part of
as proposed by Alfred Wegener.
_______________6. It is any feature produced by rock deformation.
_______________7. It is a circular or elliptical anticlinal structure.
_______________8. It is a fracture in which rocks on either side of the fracture have not moved.
_______________9. It is the distance that rocks on opposite sides of fault have moved.
_______________10. It is a hypothesis which suggested that continents are in constant motion on the
surface of the Earth.

II. True or False (20 items x 1 point)

Write TRUE if the statement is correct, otherwise, write FALSE on the space provided.
__________1. Deeply buried rocks have a greater tendency to bend and flow under stress than do
shallow rocks.
__________2. When rock deformation is brittle, faults or joints are formed.
__________3. Stress applied suddenly, rather than slowly, favors plastic behavior.
__________4. Rapidly applied stress, such as the blow of a hammer, causes brittle fracture in a
marble bench.
__________5. Pressure must exceed the internal strength of the rock otherwise, fracturing occurs.
__________6. A normal fault forms where tectonic movement stretches Earth’s crust, pulling it
apart.
__________7. When rock deformation is ductile, folds are formed.
__________8. The lower the temperature, the greater the tendency of a rock to deform in a plastic
manner.
__________9. Folding always shortens the horizontal distances in rock.
__________10. Folding usually results from compression.
__________11. Synclines form valleys.
__________12. A rock moves repeatedly along many fault and fault zones because once a fault forms
it is easier for a new fracture to develop nearby than move again along the same
fracture.
__________13. Oceanic crust is composed mostly of granite, an igneous rock rich in iron.

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__________14. Basalt records the orientation of Earth’s magnetic field at the time the rock cools.
__________15. Most rocks near Earth’s surface are jointed, and they become more abundant with
depth because rocks become more plastic and more prone to fracturing at deeper
levels in the crust.
__________16. Dams constructed in jointed rock often leak, not because the dams themselves have
holes but because water seeps into the joints and flows around the dam through the
factures.
__________17. In a reverse fault, the hanging wall has moved down relative to the footwall.
__________18. The sea floor is found to have alternating normal and reversed polarity, a pattern that
is symmetrically distributed about the Mid-Oceanic Ridge.
__________19. Fossils in the deepest layers of mud overlying basalt are very young at the ridge axis
and become progressively younger with increasing distance from the ridge.
__________20. Basins and domes form by the sinking or rising of continental crust in response to
horizontal movements of the underlying mantle.

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